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Let Stalk Strine (Meta)
◆◆ · By benchen71 · Published 2023-05-09T06:00:11.222Z
Meta Prompt
The answer to the meta is a 5-letter word
Look, I couldn't help myself: I hear people pronouncing 52 across wrongly and it grates a little! That was definitely the seed for this meta puzzle. Hopefully, you will be linguistically flexible enough to find your way to the answer, which is a 5-letter word. Answer & explanation: https://www.xword-muggles.com/viewtopic.php?p=129515#p129515
Check out "The MOAT MEOW Mashup Pack" here: https://www.ephesusscroll.com/about/interest4.html. US$10 gives you access to 14 metas that don't always abide by the "rules" of the game. You won't quite know what to expect: asymmetry, 2-letter words, uncrossed letters, sometimes all of those, and sometimes none! One thing is for sure, these are some of the more creative metas my brain has been able to come up with. And there's more: this time there's a mega-meta!
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- Hector solved 2023-05-09T12:48:29.384Z
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- Hector 3s · 2023-05-09T13:00:55.952ZWas sure the answer was going to be upside-down :-)
- hoover 🤓1:29 · 2023-05-09T14:52:21.455ZYay! I can speak Strine!
- markhr 🤓4:13 · 2023-05-09T15:45:15.450ZA real beaut, mate!
- Laura M 16:14 · 2023-05-09T19:02:42.421ZIt took me a minute to get "Strine" so I was very unsure about my translation here, but bonzer puzzle, mate! (Yeah no, I can't pull that off.)
- Meg 3s · 2023-05-09T23:46:10.771ZTricky. I just kept saying it out loud. Great puzzle, Ben!
- I was imagining this happening! Were you overheard? People would have been wondering what you were up to! :D
- whimsy 19:24 · 2023-05-10T00:47:00.438ZWhew! I owe it all to the fact that you included CHOOB in the grid. Thanks, Ben!
- Charles Montpetit 🤓1:44 · 2023-05-10T03:03:49.047ZFun one, but I only got it on the third try. Strine is rowter deafcult to mouseter.
- I K Snamhcok 3s · 2023-05-10T16:31:48.113ZPhun! Tane xben! (pathetic attempt at Strine)
- HeadinHome 🤓7:52 · 2023-05-11T10:56:14.989ZGot a tip from Ben to spell the 7 weird entries correctly, which I already had tried but just hadn’t chewed on the result long enough to recognize the word it sounded like. This was a fun challenge, and had me saying odd phrases out loud over and over (family already thinks this hobby has made me nuts, so….).
- MrTheHan 8:29 · 2023-05-11T19:18:45.203ZAdd this to the list of puzzles which have made me sound out syllables in the process of solving... Thanks, Ben!
- MatthewL 12:55 · 2023-05-12T13:56:39.351ZFinally got it, but only after Ben kindly led me through each step. Clearly, I have some studying to do.
- Ergcat 42:31 · 2023-05-13T02:18:58.304ZThanks for the Strine lesson! Very fun meta!
- Never would have gotten here without Ben's help, guess I'd best postpone any Australia trips, nobody would understand me
- ReB 3s · 2023-05-14T21:31:09.000ZFinally in desperation I hallucinated the correct answer on my fourth answer entry (and at least a hundred attempts at transliteration) - 5 days after basically figuring out the mechanism. My enjoyment was long gone by then, unfortunately.Nudges didn't really add anything to what I had already figured out, except the private nudge which confirmed that I needed to include 70A (I wasn't sure).
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"Pequod" captain
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Across
- 1A"Pequod" captain
- 5ALamb's mother
- 8A"Old Mother Hubbard went to the ___"
- 14ABound along
- 15A"Take On Me" band
- 16A"Hey Jude" outro syllables
- 17A"But, soft! What light through yonder window breaks? It is the ___, and Juliet is the sun"
- 18AHe's taken
- 20ACinema's Russell or Cameron
- 22ADrain blockage
- 23AChemical in some plastics, briefly
- 24AWith 26 across: "What does this item cost?"
- 26ASee 24 across
- 29AComputer game series with virtual people
- 32AVintage film channel
- 33A"In a similar ___"
- 34A"Stay (I Missed You)" singer, Lisa ___
- 36AEnglish class assignment
- 40AGerman exclamation
- 41AAyers Rock's current name
- 43AHurricane's centre
- 44AHollow cylinder used for moving fluids
- 46AArab leader
- 47AIowa State city
- 48AThat woman there!
- 50AFrance's patron
- 52ABird that resembles an ostrich
- 55ADad's sister
- 56AShe's a good old worker and a good old pal, apparently
- 57ASource of fibre
- 59A"They Call Me Mister ___!" (sequel to "In The Heat Of The Night")
- 63AGymnastics apparatus that debuted at the Sydney Olympics
- 67AIll-mannered one
- 68ABear witness
- 69AIt may be cast
- 70ASomeone who talks Strine, which is what you're going to have to do to solve the meta
- 71ALetters after etas
- 72AWith 73 across: "___ nothing..." (idiom that indicates a lack of confidence about the activity about to be tried)
- 73ASee 72 across
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- 1D"Star Wars" actor, ___ Guinness
- 2DFrosty coating
- 3DLhasa ___ (dog breed)
- 4DIn the space that separates two objects
- 5DSturdy piece of timber used to support the roof of a building, but it has been cut short?
- 6DArcade game with persistent rodents
- 7DVoice of Darth Vader, James ___ Jones
- 8DChess piece that leaps over others
- 9DBurj Khalifa's country (abbr.)
- 10DTenth of a grand (abbr.)
- 11D1942 Walt Disney movie
- 12DNot suitable
- 13D"Wayne's World" star ___ Carvey
- 19DSinbad's transport
- 21DDash lengths
- 25D"The Adventures of ___ and Otis" (movie narrated by Dudley Moore)
- 27DSlurpee alternative
- 28DPhone text, briefly
- 29DPC support pro
- 30DKermit's greeting introducing another fast-breaking news story on "Sesame Street"
- 31DStitched lines
- 33DCarpet cleaner, for short
- 35DEnglish Empire
- 37DPrefix meaning "half"
- 38D"The ___ have it" (the bill passes)
- 39DOpposite of no
- 41DToe the line
- 42DNational language of Pakistan
- 45DResistance unit
- 47DAnother name for an exponential function when 10 is the base number
- 49DAnimated movie starring the voices of Ewan McGregor and Robin Williams
- 51DTolkien tree creature
- 52DMiddle-___ (place where you might come across a 51 down)
- 53DDelight
- 54Dwww.ephesusscroll.com/about, for example
- 56DSports fig.
- 58DAssistant
- 60DClown of renown
- 61DWoody's "Toy Story" friend
- 62DEyelid affliction
- 64D___ Gala (Fashion's biggest night)
- 65DFree TV spot
- 66DAlways, in verse
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